NEW DELHI India -- After he retired as a hunter, photographer and a conservationist, Jim Corbett moved to Kenya in 1947 and settled in Nyeri, a sleepy town on the slopes of Mount Kenya, where he wrote a number of his books, including one on the world famous Tree Tops. Jim Corbett started off as an officer in the British army and attained the rank of a colonel. Frequently called in to kill man eating tigers or leopards, he became an experienced hunter in the Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh, now called Uttrakhand. . Observing the beauty of wildlife, he morphed into an avid photographer and later a conservative. He persuaded the then governor to set aside this area as a wildlife sanctuary,...
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